LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LV, Issue 5651, 26 January 1932, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Canon Williams, chaplain of th Christchurch Cathedral, is spendin a holiday of a few weeks in Akaroa. Reid 'McDonald, second son of M Allan McDonald of Akaroa, and pupil of the Akaroa District Hig School was successful in passing th |-Matriculation examination. | Saturday was Akaroa's hottest da this summer. The temperature be fore noon was 92 degree in the shad and this was maintained well into th afternoon. Nor'west conditions pre vailed all though the day and bathin was very popular. Gardeners report that tomatoes ar ripening slowly in view of the grea heat experienced.' Most of the out door crops are beginning to ripen no\ rnd there should be a good yield ever where in spite of the damage froi the hail storm of November 3911 last. Mrs A. Black eldest daughter o | Mr G. Armstrong, Akaroa, left yest |erday for Auckland where she i ! making her home. iMr.s Black wh ijhad been living in Queensland pre\ iously has spent some time in A'karo where she has taken part in man of the social activities of the towr and her departure will be regretted. On Sunday evening at' St Peter' Church, Ak=u-!.;i, :he vionr. Icev. H. In I Wright was assisted iby Rev. K. Sch ; oiler of A.vonside church, who rea' ; the lessons and preached a sermon o: (the interpretations of the Parables o j the Good Samaritan, pointing out ho\ j helpful in life was the gift beyon< that demanded by duty. The grounds of the Trinity Presby terian Church, Akaroa, have bee; • j 'Much injp/owd of late" by "! • <f r ' ;ioh:<if,ia Voriditte .dnd p : ;.<'e,. force ofii a concrete path to the church dooi Anothei great improver.u.n h:i =, her et'ecleil I'v pitting in two (lowe: • t-'i al .' :;rt-• the phth from the n'e ' T.«. church d-rr. The>e is a ,b/iqh L-lruv of flowers now and' the bed jadd a great deal to the appearance o church grounds.' Fourteen men are working on the un employed under the Aikaroa Comm itl.ee. The works being carried or. ■ &re the grub'bing of the Stanley Pari I 'Reserve of all noxious weeds and th | widening of the Kaik road. This lat i ter work which includes the rem ova j of a number of bad corners has beei ; under way sometime. ' The Kaik roat is very narrow in places and the wid ening will ,be a great improvement. Last Friday a granddaughter- of th< jlate Mr W. Bl Tosswill of Akaroa, i . | daughter of the late Mr Arthur Toss [will, visited Akaroa with a party o. relations and friends. They wer< , anxious to see the residences buili by the late Mr Tosswill about 4( years ago. M'r Tosswill was Mayoj of Akaroa for some time and was connected with many activities ir the district. ! Among the Canterbury Rowing Association's nominees for the l)om inion rowing eight to take part in the 1932 Olympic- {James at Los Angles next August is D. Reid of the Akaros Boating Club.. Dave Reid has stroked the Maiden Four crew which won at all the regattas it competed in last season, including the Championship regatta at Wellington, the same crew won the Junior Four event at Akaroa regatta on New Year's Day. The ''Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of In-come-tax is on Tuesday, the 9th day of February, 1<982. Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before Ist .March, 19®. The demands will foe posted from the office of' the Commissioner of Taxes on or about 2nd February, 1932. Demands must be presented with all payments and if a demandi has not been received the 'Commissioner should be communicated with. The approaches of ihe cemeteries at Akaroa need sotre improvement as at present there ij neither a place to turn a car or a road by which the hearse can approach within a reasonable distance, of the cemeteries. This applies to all three cemetei'ies ?nd it means that coffins have to be carried ic:g distances to the graveside. The Anglican cemetery has an unmetalled road to it but cars .cannot get up it n,or have they a place to turn at the cemetery gate. The approach to the Public and Catholic cemeteries is a steep decline down which it .would fee impossible to take a vehicle, and this road also .has'no metal on it. A. turn table for cars, could easily be made for these two cemeteries on the Kaik road and .this work should be undertaken. The approaches to the Akaroa cemeteries is a work which the unemployed could be engaged on;